No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love

About all you can do in life is be who you are.

Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way.

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.

When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.